Re: pcmcia enet and modem sharing in potato on laptop
There was a bug with using combo devices introduced late in the 2.1.x, and
finally fixed in 2.2.12.
Is there a particular reason you didn't upgrade the kernel when the
version was the only real difference as you described below?
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michael Perry wrote:
> Here is a strange situation. I have potato installed fresh with a 2.2.10
> kernel custom installed and the new pcmcia-cs services configured for the
> system by me. On a system exactly the same, Fujitsu Lifebook, Debian
> Potato, but kernel 2.2.12 and same pcmcia level, the 3com combo 556 card can
> have the modem and enet pcmcia used at the same time. On mine, the modem
> does not load with the ethernet card plugged in. Remvove the dongle, run
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 autoconfig auto_irq it works using wvdial. On my
> colleagues laptop it works with both connected without having to rerun
> setserial. This seems rather strange. The /etc/pcmcia/config.opts is
> exactly the same. Most kernel compilation options are the same.
>
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